Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1997, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1543 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 230015 RRA SVRLBB TXC069-230105- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 715 PM CDT THU MAY 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 805 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...CASTRO COUNTY AT 710 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES EAST OF DIMMITT OR IN THE VICINITY OF NAZARETH MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED JUST SOUTH OF DIMMITT. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. RB/JL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 63 min |
| May 22, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 46 min |
| May 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 35 min |
| May 22, 8:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Swisher | 118 min |
| May 22, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 62 min |
| May 22, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 43 min |
| May 22, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 46 min |
| May 23, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 65 min |
| May 23, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 37 min |
| May 23, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 48 min |
| May 23, 6:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 2 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.